Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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